What would you do in this situation?

[Funkyslippers]

Imagine you're a line manager to a team. Your own line manager has been bullying you for about a year eg. belittling you, generally being nasty, enough to make you leave. Few other people know about this.
The team buy you a leaving gift and at the little goodbye presentation, your bullying line manager gives a speech about how much they're all going to miss you, what a lovely colleague you are, please keep in touch, good luck etc. Would you say something along the lines of "how can you say that when you've been bullying me out of my job, you nasty cow etc" or would you just smile, say thank you etc, so as not to leave bad feeling? Or something else? Just wondered!

Smile, say thanks, and never look back.

Send them a thank you card (for the card /gift) to the office when you have gone..
With a glitter bomb in...
Not a bad word said. Don't risk tarnishing your reputation..

Smile and say thank you. My horrible line manager didn’t even get me a leaving gift or acknowledge my leaving in any way within our team and I left because I had cancer and was too ill to continue to work. It’s like I dropped off the face of the planet. 😂

Gosh how awful. I know from experience that bullying far from stops in the playground!

Leave with grace and dignity.

Unless you’re retiring and 100% certain you will never work again, take the “smile and say thank you” route. You never know who you will meet later down the line.

Nothing to stop you excoriating your line manager if you have an exit interview with HR, though.